Reworkd
by Reworkd AI, Inc.
AI web-scraping platform that generated self-healing scrapers (sunset 2025)
Last reviewed 2026-06-19
Reworkd was a Y Combinator-backed startup that built AI agents for large-scale web data extraction. After its founders went viral in 2023 with AgentGPT, an in-browser tool for assembling and running autonomous AI agents, the team pivoted to a focused product: give it a list of websites and a target schema, and its agents would understand each page, generate custom Playwright scraping code, run the extractors, validate the output, and self-heal the code when sites changed. Reworkd publicly announced it would sunset its product on February 6, 2025, and the reworkd.ai site has carried a shutdown notice since. This entry is retained as deprecated for historical reference. The widely starred open-source AgentGPT project remains available on GitHub independent of the commercial product.
What it can do
Generate scraping code from a schema (sunset)
SupervisedGiven target websites and a unified schema, the platform's AI agents understood each page and generated custom Playwright extraction code, editable in a built-in IDE.
sourceRun and validate extractors (sunset)
SupervisedRan the generated scrapers, validated results, and surfaced metrics and diffs so teams could trust the output before use.
sourceSelf-heal scrapers on site changes (sunset)
SupervisedDetected when web content or structure changed, diagnosed failures, and repaired the extraction code automatically.
sourceBuild autonomous agents in the browser (AgentGPT, open source)
SupervisedThe founders' earlier AgentGPT project lets users assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous task-running AI agents from a browser; it remains an open-source repo.
source
Strengths
- +Code-generation approach avoided LLM hallucination by producing real, reviewable Playwright scrapers
- +Self-healing reduced the maintenance burden of brittle, per-site scrapers
- +Open-source AgentGPT brought a large developer community and remains usable
Limitations
- −The commercial product was sunset on February 6, 2025; reworkd.ai is effectively inactive
- −Configurations were not portable, so migrating to another tool meant rebuilding extractors
- −Small team and limited outside funding before shutdown
Overview
Reworkd was a San Francisco, YC-backed startup (S23) building AI agents for web data extraction. It is best known for two things: AgentGPT, the in-browser autonomous-agent tool that went viral in 2023 and reached over 100,000 daily users in a week, and the later commercial Reworkd platform for large-scale scraping.
What it did
The commercial product took a list of websites plus a unified schema and used AI agents to understand each page, generate custom Playwright scraping code, run the extractors, validate results, and self-heal the code when sites changed. Because it produced real, inspectable code (editable in a built-in IDE) rather than letting an LLM read pages directly, the team argued it avoided hallucinated data while keeping scrapers from breaking on layout changes.
Status
Reworkd announced it would sunset the product on February 6, 2025, and reworkd.ai has carried a shutdown notice since. This entry is kept as deprecated for historical reference. The open-source AgentGPT repository remains available on GitHub.
Best for / not for
No longer a buying option. For current needs, Firecrawl covers AI web data extraction, and Browserbase, Browser-Use, and Skyvern cover browser automation.
Alternatives
Firecrawl is the closest active equivalent for AI web data extraction.
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FAQ
Is Reworkd still available?+
No. Reworkd announced it would sunset its product on February 6, 2025, and the site has carried a shutdown notice since. Teams that need AI web extraction should look at active alternatives such as Firecrawl or browser-automation tools.
What was AgentGPT?+
AgentGPT was the founders' earlier viral project: an in-browser tool to assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI agents. It earned Reworkd a YC spot and remains available as an open-source GitHub repository, independent of the commercial product that shut down.
Sources
- Reworkd (official site, shutdown notice) · accessed 2026-06-19
- Reworkd on Y Combinator · accessed 2026-06-19
- After AgentGPT's success, Reworkd pivots to web-scraping AI agents (TechCrunch) · accessed 2026-06-19
- Reworkd overview noting product sunset Feb 6, 2025 (ZoomInfo) · accessed 2026-06-19
Last reviewed 2026-06-19